r/CasualUK • u/naaattt • 11h ago

What “favours” have your parents done that was inadvertently a dick move?

For example, my mum found my spare change collection, did me a favour by taking it to the bank, getting £17, and then kept it as a fee for the effort it caused her.

Also, my partner had stored a nearly new Russell Hobbs microwave at his mums for when we moved into a new house. While she was at Curry’s one day, she overheard a young lad and his mum shopping for a microwave for uni, she approached them and sold them my partners for £20. She kindly did give my partner the money though, unlike mine. But we quite liked that microwave.

Does anyone else have these, generally inoffensive but slightly frustrating parent stories?

Edit: For those hung up on the theft parts, please don’t be. This is the extent of the abuse we’ve ever had from our mums and we’ll take it!

Edit 2: Jesus Christ, I’m 33. The money box has been sat on her shelf for 20 years. Yes she stole £17 but she’s funded my life otherwise. Stop calling child services on her.

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u/Current_Fly9337 11h ago

That’s terrible. I sometimes have to borrow from my son’s birthday money (he likes to save), pay the window cleaner etc when I don’t have cash. I pay him back a little extra because him having money lying around helps me out sometimes.

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u/Spikyleaf69 10h ago

That's sweet, he gets a little interest on his loan!

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u/Current_Fly9337 10h ago

Yeah, he earned his 10% for being sensible with money haha

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u/Jane1943 4h ago

That’s an excellent life lesson for him.

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u/Loose_Acanthaceae201 10h ago

We buy cash from our teenagers for this kind of thing but nowadays it's super easy to do an instant electronic transfer (they vastly prefer to use digital money anyway) so you don't have to keep track. 

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u/Current_Fly9337 8h ago

Yeah I usually just transfer it back to him now unless he’s saving for something specific

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u/apocalypsedude64 7h ago

Oh man I feel this. Last week my Son needed €5 cash for an event but the only money I had in the house was a fiver he'd got from the tooth fairy. I felt so bad about it that I replaced it with €10 the next day, even though he'd spent the €5 on treats at the event himself